Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

ISBN-13: 9780367470623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Hugh Cunningham

Opis

Incorporating recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham’s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Children and childhood in ancient and medieval Europe  3. The development of a middle-class ideology of childhood, 1500-1900  4. Family, work and school, 1500-1900  5. Children, philanthropy and the state in Europe, 1500-1860  6. Saving the children, 1830-1920  7. 'The century of the child?'  8. Conclusion  9. Epilogue: 1995-2020

O autorze

Hugh Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Kent.